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Social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators

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  • Gault, Fred

    (UNU-MERIT, and TUT-IERI Pretoria)

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This paper examines the social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators. The approach deals separately with the development process and with the use of the indicators that result. Underlying the discussion is an assumption that indicators are a technology, a product, which governs behaviour, is modified by users (outside of the producer community), and develops in response to user needs. Science and technology indicators are considered separately from innovation indicators, and the importance of language based on codified and tacit knowledge is emphasized. The knowledge is codified in manuals, and the tacit knowledge is held in overlapping communities of practice that develop the manuals, gather the data, produce the indicators and use them. Finally, there is a discussion of how this process changes and renews itself.

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  • Gault, Fred, 2011. "Social impacts of the development of science, technology and innovation indicators," MERIT Working Papers 2011-008, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
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    1. Gault, F., 2014. "Where are innovation indicators, and their applications, going?," MERIT Working Papers 2014-055, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    2. Leonid Gokhberg & Konstantin Fursov & Ian Miles & Giulio Perani, 2013. "Developing and using indicators of emerging and enabling technologies," Chapters, in: Fred Gault (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, chapter 15, pages 349-380, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Geoff Mulgan & Kippy Joseph & Will Norman, 2013. "Indicators for social innovation," Chapters, in: Fred Gault (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, chapter 18, pages 420-438, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Tomohiro Ijichi, 2013. "Innovation surveys: experience from Japan," Chapters, in: Fred Gault (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, chapter 8, pages 196-214, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Fred Gault, 2013. "Innovation indicators and measurement: an overview," Chapters, in: Fred Gault (ed.), Handbook of Innovation Indicators and Measurement, chapter 1, pages 3-38, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Cirera, Xavier & Muzi, Silvia, 2020. "Measuring innovation using firm-level surveys: Evidence from developing countries✰," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 49(3).

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    Keywords

    Economic impacts; social impacts; innovation indicators; science and technology indicators; indicators; social constructs; knowledge;
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    JEL classification:

    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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